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Payroll Associate Manager

Remote, USA Full-time Posted 2026-06-06

Job Description:

  • Work in a team to implement and configure enterprise-scale Workday solutions for our global customer base.
  • Build relationships with customers, shaping and delivering solutions aligned to customer needs.
  • Provide excellent guidance to customers, understanding their business and requirements.
  • Support junior members of the team and share your knowledge with them.

Requirements:

  • At least 2-3 years of Workday Payroll implementation experience.
  • At least 2 years configuring Workday Payroll implementation from E2E with the last 3 years.
  • Certification in Workday United States Payroll.
  • The ability to build complex payroll calculations.
  • Experience with multiple positions.
  • Experience with implementing multiple FEIN’s.
  • Strong understanding of state taxes, local taxes, and FLSA calculations.
  • An understanding of Workday Payroll, US Payroll, Time Tracking and Absence products and the interdependencies with Benefits, Time Tracking and Absence as well as other cross functional capabilities.
  • Experience with Payroll regulatory requirements (Tax, Garnishments, Common Pay Master), retirement benefits (401K etc.), payroll processing, Unions/Collective Bargaining Agreements and payroll accounting.
  • Excellent customer focus, able to assess customer needs, build relationships and manage customer expectations.
  • Strong communicator, able to communicate with customers and colleagues with impact, credibility and empathy, including in a remote working situation.
  • Sound ability to formally present to senior Client audiences.
  • Strong commercial awareness and full understanding of project and business dynamics.
  • Broad business and technology understanding and a good awareness of industry trends in either Human Resource management, Financials or Enterprise Resource Planning or Payroll.
  • Ability to work to tight deadlines and make sensible decisions under pressure taking a balanced view of Customer demands and Kainos commercials.
  • Ability to widen and maintain a network of external contacts.
  • Strong consulting skills e.g. presenting, leading workshops, demonstrating and explaining complex functionality or solutions to customers.
  • Willing to participate in PATT team internal discussions and help where possible.
  • Willing and able to act as a role model within the capability and mentor and/or line manage more junior consultants.
  • Willing to assist AMS with questions related to your subject area.
  • Able to implement improvements in tools and/or processes to help the practice.
  • Commercial understanding of utilization within a services organization and the importance of these targets.
  • Able to rotate through various Workday delivery services.
  • Able, if required, to travel to customer sites in the same region (minimal out of region travel may also be required).

Benefits:

  • Kainos embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace

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